01January2016
Media treatment of the term 'blowback', the concept that foreign policy has consequences that rebound on its perpetrators, illustrates a fundamental hypocrisy in 'the mainstream'. It is fine for approved journalists and commentators to use the word when discussing terrorist attacks, actual or feared, here in the West. But abuse and vitriol will be heaped upon the heads of peace activists who dare broach the subject. They are smeared as 'victim-bl...
By David Edwards
A critic responding to a recent alert, objected to our use of the term 'corporate journalist':
'The problem is it has no clear meaning. Chomsky regularly writes for "corporate media", as do...